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Push for bold housing investments at federal, state, and local levels.
Build a targeted lobbying campaign to move large-scale housing investments through Congress and key state and local budgets. Focus on expanding rental assistance (like Section 8 vouchers) and capital funding (like the National Housing Trust Fund) that can build and preserve more low-income units. Use current affordability pressures and homelessness visibility to lock in durable dollars, not just short-term pilots.
Why this works
- Legislation can unlock large-scale resources and change structural incentives (like tax credits for building affordable housing).
- Successful precedent: past federal pushes (e.g.
- housing acts in mid-20th century) created millions of homes.
Families USA is a leading national nonprofit advocacy organization dedicated to achieving high-quality, affordable health care and improved health for all Americans. Founded in 1981, Families USA amplifies the voices of health care consumers in policy debates:. It played a key role in shaping and defending the Affordable Care Act and continues to push for expanding coverage, lowering health costs, and addressing health equity.
Mechanism
How Families USA uses funding
- Choose a specific bill or budget decision to influence across federal, state, and local levels.
- Build a coalition around a shared funding ask and clear policy priorities.
- Prepare briefs and stories that connect affordability pressures to concrete funding solutions.
- Meet with lawmakers and staff, provide testimony, and mobilize constituents during decision windows.
- Track amendments and negotiations, then document outcomes and next steps after passage or defeat.
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